Author:Christopher Paul Curtis
A heart-warming, funny and fast-moving story set in 1930s America - past winner of the highly prestigious Newbery Medal.
Bud is on a journey. He has hit the road with one idea in mind - he wants to discover his father. He's not got a lot to go on - just a flyer for a jazz band and his very own Rules and Things for Having a Funner Life and Making a Better Liar Out of Yourself. Despite encounters with a car-driving vampire, a monster-infested woodshed and even a real live girl, Bud presses on towards a surprising discovery ...
Will keep readers engrossed from first page to last
—— Publishers WeeklyIn Lucy Mangan’s childhood reading memoir Bookworm, she describes the significance of discovering Gwen Grant’s book Private – Keep Out! and reading about a family dynamic that she recognised from her own life, but hadn’t found in any other stories. “At last,” she explains, “I could see my family from the outside in ... we were still in some fundamental ways outsiders. I think about Private – Keep Out! whenever arguments about diversity and representation in books break out."
—— Independent[A] timely examination of moral, physical and mental bravery and pain
—— Daily MailThis is a laugh out loud story with hilarious illustrations
—— Families MagazineWHAM gives Daisy and the Trouble with Zoos five out of five for laugh-out-loud-ability!
—— CITV.co.uk